#SundayMorningRead
Must-read! 🤔 😯 Likely the most important article you'll read today: long-term public health, societal implications, concerns.
Why long COVID could be a ticking time bomb for public health
Long COVID isn't novel: Other viruses in history have had similar "long" arcs - with devastating repercussions
Great article by Philip Finkelstein | https://philipfinkelstein.com
Cites leading peer-reviewed, primary research (Nature Communications; Mayo Clinic; ...)
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The 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish Flu) infected one-third (500 million) of the world's population (then 1.8 billion) & killed 50 million.
With such a high mortality rate this acute infectious disease took its toll, erasing from existence nearly 3% of all people on Earth.
This "long flu," an echo of sorts of the Spanish Flu epidemic itself, has its parallel in long COVID today - a similar cluster of symptoms that persist in those who were previously infected with COVID-19.
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The medical establishment calls this condition post-acute infection syndrome (PAIS).
We now have a plethora of information suggesting that COVID-19 is the latest addition to the list of infections spawning post-acute infection syndrome; that is, "long COVID."
According to the CDC, in June 2022, almost one in five American adults who had COVID-19 still had long COVID.
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